Mum fights for space for autistic daughter

Cally and Maddison in her bedroom, a cupboard under the stairs W03326H14

Published:07:00Updated:08:23Friday 24 January 2014

A MOTHER has been forced to make a bedroom for her autistic child in a downstairs cupboard so the family can get a decent night’s sleep.

Cally Laundon, 31, of Friar Walk, Worthing, says she has had no help from the council and now has no option but to borrow money from family and friends to build an extension on the back of the one-bedroom flat that she shares with Maddison, four, and her partner Daniel.

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